The Sun. — London, England, 1826-07-14 00:00:00

THE LONDON JOURNALS. DAILY EXTRACTS FROM THE MORNING PAPERS. JULY 14, 1826. [THE TIMEB.3 The Consol market wore yesterday an improved ap pearance, through the general expectation which pre vailed that preparations have been made for taking a large amount of stock on the account day ; and this, assisted by the few purchases made with the dividends, has created a temporary scarcity - of stock. Consols were full *per cent. better, having closed at 78, buy ers, for the 18th. This improvement, it is evident, is owing much more to local causes, and the state of the speculations for the account, than to any change for the better in the situation of the country. Minis ters themselves, we learn, now begin to'be seriously alarmed at the continued distress which prevails in the manufactUring diatricts, representations of which now reach them from quarters so respectable, that the nature and extent of it can no longer remain a subject of doubt. A manufacturer of great emi nence, from a district about 30 miles north of Man-, cheater, and who is also a very considerable lend-owner, is now in town, and has had An , interview with Minia ters. He anticipates, unless some speedy remedies are applied, the most alarming consequences from the present position of the countty. 'The great mass of population about him is composed of the hand-loom weavers of cotton goods, the most prosperous of whom are reduced to a bare subsistence from their labour, and the remainder on the parish books. The poor rate in many places exceeds the amount of the rent ; and the number of claimants for relief increases with such frightful rapidity, that the class of inhabitants which still contribute to the relief of the poor is gradu ally sinking into pauperism, and becoming applicants themselves for support. Most of the- farms in that neighbourhood are small, the tenants consuming -in their own families the greater part of the produce and working at their looms for the money with ; which. the rent is to be paid. This source failing, the landlords, of course, obtain nothing, and from the rank they hold in the country, are expected to assist actively in the alleviation of that distress with which their doors are besieged. Statements like these are now submitted to Ministers, who profess their willingness to do every thing in their power, but declare their inability to suggest any remedy, and desire that some may be pointed, out by the applicants, who themselves are equally at a loss. The root of the evil they consider to be the stigma thrown on the country circulation,. -first, by the failure of the banks, and next by tampering with it on the part of the Ministers; but they are ready to confess that credit and confidence are so completely destroyed, that even to declare 'an interminable issue of country bank-paper would now be totally useless. All parties agree that some very powerful Measure is absolutely. necessary, before winter approaches, for the relief of the distressed population, since even a partial restoration of trade would not relieve those whose la bour is everywhere superseded by' the incre a sin g use of power-loorris. So far, we believe, we May state, that encouragement has been given to the applicants to Ministers on this subject, that if the leading manu facturers and land-owners will Combine and suggest any remedy which they conceive will prove effectual Ministers 'will not allow any abstract ions r t of to policy, on the fidherence to which, in ordinary tiMes, there could be no question, to i n t er f ere w ith its adoption. The obvious relief of emigration has presented itself, we hear, to some of the manufacturers; and inquiries - have been made how far the regulations of the Lanatla Compttny will permit an arrangement for transporting the unhappy weavers to the lands purchased of the British Government, Some plans have also been formed 'for. shipping off a portion of them to one of the new American States, but no progress has yet, we believe, been made in either project.. The indigo sale which is now iii progress at the India-House, and which consisted of nearly 7,000 chests, has been watched with much interest. The ;brokers report the prices to be such, though nearly 50 per cent. lower than those of last year, as would be deemed feir average be fore the mania for speculation commence - it, and the demand for the article as I,olerably steady, They re mark, however, and the fact is a very curious one, that so far as the sale has proceeded, the great , majority al the purchases have - been made on sth e account of French, Swiss, and German manufacturers, but very few for the English consumer. This failure of de. mand, as regards the home consumption, will be a sinister omen if it' lasts through the sale ; but it would be premature to draw any conclusion from it until the whole, which will occupy several days more, shall have been gone through. The A dvices from Coloin bia, bearing any referrence to its finanee, which arri s ved yesterday by the Leeward Islands mail, are very discouraging. It has been held out in this country, that whatever consequences to the Government might follow the failure of the agent here, a large reserve fund, the prOceeds of the fiat loan, remained in the Treasury at Bogota, and would, no doubt, be remit ted, when the call for it became known, for the pay ment of the dividends. If:reliance, however, is to be placed on the contents 'of a letter we have seen, writ ten by an English merchant residing in latguayra, that fund has been already dissipated by a proceeding of. government, the extreme imprudence of which is the least blameable part of its Character. It appears that they have advanced to private merchants the sum of 2,000,000 dollars, receiving their bills as security for repayment, to be employed in buying up the bonds of the domestic debt, which had fallen to 10 or 12 pear Cent.' 'of their nominal -value. At this very time they were passing a law for paying off: this debt by a foreign loan. The domestic debt, in 'consequence rose to 50 per cent, but as no loan is now forthcom ing, the merchants, who undertook this notable pro jeet remain with their purehase, but reduced in value to little.rnore timo waste paper, Thus disappears the last remnant of English money transported to Colom bia, and which does not appear to have conferred' one solid advantage on the country, but to have been literally thrown away upon it. No material variati o n oc curred yesterday in the. foreign market. Russian Stock has advanced to 80 ; the trans-Atlantic Bonds were lower, but support better prices than could have been anticipated. Dim MORNING ettlioNict.r..] The imprisonments under the Game Laws kee p , , l) pace with th e otner imprisonments. In 1825 th ey amount to the enormous number, for England alone, of 1,550. The number for Wale. is seventeen, and for Scotland thirty, making the whole 1,597. Though Scotland has no Game Laws, hi the English sense, her Game Code being comprised in two 41(.14i—that of 1621, and the 13th of Geo. 111., imposing fines for kill ing game without a legal qualification, and possessing game without the leave of a qualified person ; yet, in wine of the English counties, the proportion is even lower than the average of Scotland. In the rich and highly-cultivated e ounty of Northumberland, with a population of 198,000, and containing the wealthy and luxurious town of Newcastle, the commitments are only three ; that is, exactly the average of Scot land. But Cornwall, with a population of 257,447, had only two commitments.—lt has been remarked by a sensible contemporary, that the number of commit ments under the game laws, seems to fluctuate with the condition of the working classes in the different Counties. No doubt the poverty of the working classes must add very much to the temptation to poach. But there are, notwithstanding, some inexplicable anomalies in the returns. For instance, Cumberland, which must be pretty much under the same circumstances as those of the other Northern Counties, has, with a population Of 156,124, no fewer than 41 commitments, while De vonshire and, Somerset, two of the counties of England in which the people are the poorest, the former with population of 439,030, and the latter with a population of 355,314, have respectively only 23 and 29 commit ments. What should have increased so much the Game Law commitments in Cumberland, which has the advantage, too, of possessing the benevolent fa mily of the Lowtbers, is beyond : our comprehension. If we were to hazard a conjecture, we should say, that the commitments under the Game Laws are as Much influenced by the humanity and good sense of the Magistracy of a. county, as by the poverty of the laboUrmg classes. When a Lord Lieutenant is more solicitous to have toad-eating Parsons or his political dependents in the Commission than respectable gen , tlemen, we may expect to find the number of game commitments higher than' in. the counties where the . Lord Lieutenant is solicitous only to have a respect , able Magistracy, without regard to party or political Subserviency. ' L THE MORNING} HERALD.] of his impartial friends soon bring him to form a more correct opinion. Such has beets the case, with the silk manufacturers. They railed at first against the measure—they reproached its supporters as visionary innovators, and at length calmly coincided with the opinion of those who entered on the discussion free of self-interest and prejudice. Putting aside, however, the policy or impolicy of introducing foreign silks for consumption into this country, one thing is certain, that we cannot import manufactures, or any other commodities, without exporting British produce to an equal amount ; so that if by ally possibility the measure should fail, some of the productions of this country must be taken by France as _a return for the silks im ported.—Mid. [THE tptITISH PRESS.] We extracted lately, from an Inverness Paper, a passage giving an account of a pretended discovery of a cycle of the price of grain, which was said to be connected with the cycle of the weather, discovered by the same individual. The discoverer asserts that he has formed his conclusions from the regular ac counts of the price of grain for a long series of years, from which he has . been led to conclude that there is a regular succession in the rising and falling of.prices, dependent upon the weather, which he asserts to be subject to a like vicissitude. This theory may, per haps, possess more of fancy than of reality ; but we confess it appears to us not by any means so wild a speculation as' some of those whom we have conversed with on the subject iinagine. There is something in the mind of man which inclines him to run succes sively from one extreme to another ; and a sudden rise ,is invariably followed by an equally sudden fall. There is ,also a sort of regular process by which the development of truth gradually comes into operation, and produces important changes in society ; and thus, even in those departinents which depend 'apparently upon the caprices of the human mind, less steady by far than the elenients, , ' there is a sort of cycle---a re gular succession, by whi c h one event leads to another, and which would enable beings possessed of higher faculties than we are, to draw the last link of the chain from the first. In the occurrences of a few years we may see events following in something of this form. We have seen the manufacturing interest depressed, and the agricultural 'flourishing ; we have seen them change places again and'again in the rank of prosperity,;' and .the people of thfs country ought not to, be depreased by a vicissitude to which they have so frequently been subject. It would appear from the Balton Chronicle, that five factories in that town are to close immediately_ This is the only way to bring trade round. . The great error for some years has been an excess in the production of cotton goods. The question with the manufacturers has been, not how many pieces they could sell, and be paid for, but how many they could make. Some twenty or thirty years ago, the de mand for most descriptions of cotton goods was so much greater than the supply, that the manufacturer was sought after by the purchaser, and not the pur chaser by the manufacturer, as at the present day. A manufacturer 'then had little or no trouble in dispos ing of his goods at great profit. He could not be too venturous, for the goods were no sooner produced thin disposed of ; the consequence of Which was that large and rapid fortunes 'were made by a great number of individuals, parti cularly those, engaged in the cotton manufactures— such as Sir R. Peel Mr. Horrocks, Mr. Sudell, o f N ackburne, and others. This, of course, soon at tracted the attention o f th e neighbours , ---they, wished to make large fortunes too—they invented power looms and other machines, and Could produce such an immense quantity of goods, that, as we have often said, unless new worlds were discovered, there never Would be a demand proportionate to the supply. If all the machinery of En g l an d wer e to b e . put in f ul l motion, we have ,no hesitation in saying, that this country could supply the whole world with cotton ma nufactured goods. This may give us some idea of the almost incredible power of this machinery, when we consider the quantity of su c h goo d s manu f acture d in China, and, in the East Indies,. and on the Conti nent of Zurope. It will give us an idea, too, of the extent of the , market required, and of the enormous 'sale that would be necessary for meeting the wishes . of • our manufacturers. They, no doubt, would be in a high state of. prosperity, if. all these nations would leave off manufacturing goods—they 'would have a good demand—obtain ' high prices, and would soon, accumulate immense fortunes. Let 'them only for a moment, however, look at the present State of things. These nations will never adopt such a plan to favour the English, and there is no proba bility that any market equal to the supply which could be produced by this country will ever be discovered. The fact is, we have carried the system too ilir ; we have gone on inventing machines-, to ,flieilitate labour ; we have multiplied these machines to an almost incredible extent ; we have built factories in such numbers and of such dimensions, that no demand, perhaps, will ever bring more than one-half of. :the machinery into full play' for illy length of tiine. The system must take a turn the other way. The manufacturers must leave off making goods and. building factories; they .must shut up many of thos e a l rea dy built ; and the miserable population that might be said to have inha. bited them must find out new sources of employment, or emigrate to foreign countries, where there is a de mand for labour. Scarcely any thing could be more preposterous than the system which has been .carrying on for some time in the, manufacturing districts. In deed; it is little less preposterous than if the. proprie tors of a newspaper were to keep the printing ma chines going night and day, and throwing off thou sands after thousands, without ever considering whe ther they y would find customers for them. These might be sold as waste. paper ; but it is well known that no small quantity of cotton goods have been lately sold at a price little, if at all, more advantageous to le proprietor. [THE NEW TIMES.] An article from the Carlisle Patriot, which we give in another part of to-day's paper, more than confirms the arguments which we brought forward the other day on the subject of the Branch Banks. It appears that the Scotch 13ankers justly fearing that any attempt to continue them may be attended with the extension of the prohibition of one pound notes. to Scotland, from which extension that country was on ly exempte d b y the very peculiar circumstances of its Banks, are about entirely to withdraw their agents from England. The merchants and others, in the neighbourhood of Carlisle, are so'nich alarmed at the probable conse quences of this measure, that they have submitted a memorial on the subject to the Lords Com m i ss i on e rs of the Tre a s ur y. The difficulty of preventing Scotch notes from circulating in England, struck us, when that„,question was in agitation, as one of the strongest reasons for th e ex t ens i on o f the prohibition. `But If the Thinkers of Scotland were not only allowed to circulate small notes, hut to keep up establish ments for their circulation in England, tilts would be neither more nor less than prohibiting the use of small notes to our own coun t r y banks, for the purpose of conferring a monopoly on those of our neighbours.— We shall not, however, presume to anticipate what answer their Lordships in their wisdom may see fit to return to the memorial from Carlisle ; we would con tent ourselves with submitting to our friends in the, Directory of the Bank of England the propriety of in terposing to remedy the grievance of winch the Me morialists are in dread, by the establishment of a Branch Bank in Carlisle, or its neighbourhood. The more, indeed, we consider this question, the more are we convinced that the removal of a large portion of the distress of the country will be the infallible con sequence of such establishments. The Batik has ever shown the most lively sympathy with the public cala mities, and has made great sacrifices in order to their redress ; but in this case no sacrifice is called for : the measures we recommend will, we have no doubt, prove equally beneficial to the Bank, to the merchant, to the manufacturer, and last, certainty not least, to the poor suffering artisan. in learning from almost We have much pleasure every part of the country that the silk manufacturers . are : now completely reconciled to the introduction of French silks, at a duty of 30 per cent. We h ear no more of the folly of Ministers, of the ruin of the silk- weavers, or of other calamities which were regarded by'' some as the certain, consequences of the measure.--, Indeed, any, man that looked dispassionately to the question at first, could hardly fail to adopt.the same • opinion which now prevails even among those most deeply interested. - What with carriage, freight, 30 per cent. duty, and,a great variety of other charges on foreign silks, on the one hand, and on the other the low price of weaving, and the reduction of duty on the raw material, our silk manufacturers would not deserve the name if they could, not compete with the French. At the time Mr, fitlifdgpll prop * the m e asure our opinion onthe subject was the same as it. is, now. — We said the fears of the manufacturers were without foundation, and boldly advocated the measure, not withstanding the scurrilous letters that poured, in upon us from all those districts where the silk trade was carried on. Such letters are of little importance. It. is well known how little alarms a manufacturer, and, bow, little dependence can be placed on what he says whenever his own interest,is concerned: Such, how ' ever, i 8 the case with human nature in general. Whatever a ff ects a man's person, or property, or character, a tr eeta Inin in quite a different manner fromthat in which it liffeCtS the impartial spec-: tator. We have instances of this almost ever)/ day. , If the least remark is made that can hurt a mans pride or vanity, he is in arms against us at once, and fora time believes himself the worst, use man in existence. Time and the 'Onversatio necessary that I should distinctly explain the nature of thi grant that has been made, and the conditions upon which it was committed to our management. It will appear from Mr. Heries'a letter to your Ladyship, that no pension was granted by his Majesty to you : that his Majesty had been pleased , to extend his bounty, : in consideration of the painful situation in which you were left, by giving one sum of 3001. to Lord Dutwannon and me, as joint trustees, to your Ladyship's use ; and 2007. snore for the occasional assistance of such parts of Lord Erskine's family as might appear to us most to require it. We agreed only to make weekly payments of such sums, as may be absolutely necessary to keep off iminediate distress, inasmuch as there is no .reasonable ex pectation of any addition to 'the 3001. already received. lam sorry to hear that your youngest son ►s ill, and prevented from at tending to his studies for which we bold ourselves answerable, and towards which would be applied the pension of 50/. per year which his Majesty has had the goodness to grant to us for Isis use. ROSSLYN. There is a postscript added, directing that upon any occasion where medical treatment might be necessary, application should be immediately made in the proper quarters. Mr. Chamberlain found it necessary to address.a note to his Lordship (Roslyn) upon the pressing exigency of Lady Erskine, to which note he re ceived the following answer May, 6, 1826. Sir,--I hare communicated with Lord Duncannon, and upon the representation of the very - Urgent distress of Lady Erskine, we have taken upon ourselves to make an advance of 41. from the money committed to us in. trust ; but I think it necessary to guard you against the expectation that we can continue any such payment in future, as we shall consider it to be our duty to return the money intrusted to us by his Majesty's bounty to the Treasury, and to desire to be relieved from the trust ; and to represent the conduct of Lady Erskine in withdrawing her son from school, and withholding all means of receiving the education suited to his birth. I am, Sir, Your obedient servant, Mr. Chamberlain, Great Newport -street. The LORD MAYOR then said he understood Lady Erskine to receive 16s. per week, and asked whether she had ally other support or resource ? Mr. Chamberlain—l believe none in the world. The Loan MAYOR—Has that sum been paid regularly? Mr. Chamberlain admitted that it had not, and 'produced an account, from which it appeared that the widow had for some time been receiving no more than Ns. per week, and that the last sum she had received was 9s. for her week's supply. The Loan MAYOR.--.-SIIR ought surely to have received the l 6e. per week. What was the motive for not paying it all ? Mr. Charnberlain.—l have paid to her every shilling I --re ceived for her from Lord Rosslyn except 16s. The Loan MAvoit—On what account was that mosey hand ed to you ? Mr. Chamberlain—On account of the pension of his Majesty, to which Lord Rosslyn was one of the trustees. I paid it accord ing to my instructions. I was aware how trifling the sum was, but I could not make it up out of my own pocket. The LORD Msvott—Certainly not. Mr. Chamberlain—The person who used to pay the money before. I volunteered, got tired of the business, and discOntitiu ed it. ROSSLYN. The Loan MaToa.---When did you begin to make the advances ? Mr. Chamberlain—ln March last. The LORD MAYOR—But you• were to have paid her 16s. per week. You have not said:why that sum was diminished'? Mr. Chamberlain.---I believe it was because she refused to give up !Iter youngest child. It is with her, running to ruin and in tatters. We wished to have proper care taken of • him, but nothing will induce her to give him up into our hands. The !Loan MAYOR—..She did not deny that you are the only person of whom she had spoken. You see in what a miserable condition the unfortunate 141.; with scarcely a stitch upon. her. Now I wish to know whether you are acquainted with any in stances of misconduct on the part of Lady Erskine. Mr. Chamberlain—l never saw any impropriety in her conduct. The Loam Mayott—When did you see her youngest son ? Mr. Chanaberlaiti—He came to me in tatters on Saturday last, and I gave him the hist 9s. fel. his mother. • The Loan Maros.. -Poor child ! and do you not know where they live ? Mr. chamberlain—Not exactly. I think she lives in some court or alley, called Stone-entter's-court, in St. Martin's-lane. She told me some tithe ago she was going to be my neighbour, and I think it is there she and her boy are. It is impossible that T could under the circontstances have acted otherwise than I did. Lady Erskine Will tell you that I acted with the greatest kindness. The Lotto Iltalrott did not mean to east any reflection upon the conduct of Mr. chamberlain, hint expressed deep regret at the ierritile change which the unfortunate widow of the highly gifted Erskine, to whom we were so much! indebted fin. the liberty of the Press, had experienced. His Lordship asked Mr. Chamber lain if he was aware a any objectionable conduct upon the part of Lady Erskine to which this frightful, neglect might be attri buted ? Mr. Chamberlain--.I know of • none, my Lord. I t la cer tain, however, that my Lord Hoeslyn, is very sour ag a i nst h er . 'The Loan Mayon—Sour ! Why so? Mr. Chamberlain—A female friend of Lady Erskine went to Lord Rosslyn and set hint Against her, by Speaking of her as fond of liquor, and indeed given to every excess. His Lordship says that the little boy's clothes suddenly disappeared without any just cause. The. Lotto Mayort---The straitened condition of the mother's cireitinetences was such as perhaps might account for that, without attributing it to any disgraceful cause. Twelve, shillings per week, and that. not very regularly paid, is no very great allowance for the widow of a Nobleman arid her child. Where are the other three children? Mi. Chamberlain said they were properly taken care of, and that the mother was destroying the child she had at home with her, by denying to him the same advantages. The LORD MAYOR said there would be probably more inquiry into, the circumstances of Lady Erskine's case. He perceived by the accounts and the bills furnished, that Mr. Chamberlain was effectually . Lady Erskine's friend in an emergency, as the money for her. case was dealt out to him so scantily. There uppeared in the accounts, money fur Lady Erskine, 11. 1211. Mr.. Chamberlain stated . that he. believed Lords Roselyn arid Duncannon would, in all probability, not like to see anything which occurred on thissubject, in print. 'l'lle Loan Mayon said he'could not help that. Hie Lordship ordered that a messenger should be despatched to Lady Erskine, to inform her LailYship that he had received some subscriptions for her benefit. It was observed by his Lordship, that the de graded condition to which the lady of the late Lord' Chancellor of England was reduced, might he judged of from the fact, that she was first introduced to his notice by a chimnek.an eeep ! BOW-STREET.—On Wednesday afternOon, as Mr. Haeti wag leaving the office, a very d ecent -l ooking woman, about forty years of age, named Crinviey, wa s b rought in by Bishop, the officer, charged by Captain Knoit,- of 'the East . India Company's Service, with constantly annoying him and his family, by coming to hie house and refusing t o leave the do or, and occasionally - attracting the notice of Pik'heager e b y hir complaints and liimen pl tatians. ' The def en da nt was accompanied by her daughter, an exceedingly interestin g c hil d, apparently about eight years of age, who stood weeping by the side of her Mother while the charge was heard. Captain Knox stated that the defendant had lived in the service of the late Lieutenant-General BrO w n, w h o ' w a s b rot h er to hi s (Captai n K nox ' s ) mother, w i t h whom be now resided, in North terrace, Hampstead-road, arid in consequen ce of sto n e f anc i e d c l a i m of hereupon th e General, she was constantly coming to the h oue e, and sittingupon the stele of, the door, refusing to go away until her demand was complied with. If she had any claim, the s law WIN ope n to h er to receVer, and she could proceed in a regular way. .That morning she placed hereelf ut the door, and remained there for r :several ham's, with her child, sweeping and , waili ng , and re _ 'using to:go away, although repeatedly warned that she would be given into custedy. Kum( was maki ng t hi s state ment, egitation. r t iel n ‘ t h,c e li to e t f i t d ild l l eating wl ti l g il it e ii C ei? the t4in table in a truly pitiable' state of Mr. HaLes, after telling her in a tone of kindliest; that if she mrs. Knox in the way described, asked . had really any claim she must take legal steps to enforce it, a n d her lie Bait to n° 4‘,4o:l°l'hang!t B s t i h r, e). ! f ei nim id il}: t s h i: i f tl ? efendant, " when you know my case w ill p i ty me, so d, you w ill perce i ve h ow incapable 1 am of havyouing. recourse to the .law-to enforce my claim." Sh e then peeded state, that she had been 22 years hous e k eeper to the late General to. ' B row „ , having, at hest,, at his pressing solicitations, left h er . hus band to live with him. The General WAS etrongly attached to for her, and she Was honoured with his toast llaoll4ded coneulesice. sh e managed his expenditure in household matte's entirely, and he always told her, that whatever might happen to him, elle, should be provided for, for the whole of her life. .She had two , Madain,---1 hav e had:the i toni) o :rneamto:tirer'ce4 iv il ry ' e t iti l' r B Lad igl i s tip'd children while she ,lived .with him • the first one a boy, letter; and lo se " t i nis i ii, __ p r es sing my regret .tliat )do itot_coet - whose education and future welfare the General • ( ' promise(' td pro-- . ea eider inyeelf to he et liberti to make all Oyance out of the sum vole' , and hoe, intrusted by th e t,,,,d4 f th 6 Tieasery, to the atheitiietratioo of however, died some tints ago. While in the service of the Gee Lard rinneannoir and Myself, fur the benefit Of Your Ladyishiji and nevelt ' the girl she alteays ketd a regular account in a book . of the money ' wit° • ni nv , 400(1. beside her., The Lord Erskiue's family, beyond the weeklY peWaeu t s „am ; wer e s h e expended, and a yearly eettlement,toek place between..thelp. arranged, with hi s e‘ ,„ eunence , wfort he Wept to irdwitt. It is) .OU a jiage ia the hot hook she ever used, the Cieueral wrote a' POLICE INTELLIGENCE. MANSION-HOUSE.—The Loan MA yesterday, sent to Mr. Chamberlain, the cottetinaker, of Great Newport-street, to, request ,that he would, put his Lop/ship in possession of any , information he amght'be posed of d with respect to the distressed widow of Lord Erskine. Mr. Chamberlain readily. waited. upon his Lordship. The Loan M*yoa said, as the application of the petitioner had been made public; he thought proper to mention what had indumd him to interfere. He• had observed in a Morning Paper of that day, a letter, signed by Mr: Chamherlain, : alluding to the ►state ment which had,been made by the widow .of Lord , Erakine at the Mansion4louse, and, as the condition of the Unfortunate Lady was truly deserving of compromion, (if a judgment were to be form ed from the humble and grateful tone in which she expressed her self on finding that her complaint was not likely to be neglect ed), it was desirable that it should , be immediately ascertained whether there was any hind upon which she had positively a . , Charahrlaln had been lea to offer ins service's to Lady Erskine, is a medium throtigh 'Which she Might receive the amount of airy or claim, merely from compassionste mo tives; He had hiard, tome t i m e ago; that she was in great the trets4 ; and, as her ease was no eoutnton one, be readily aildeitOOk to do her all the service in his power. The LORD Maims... Allow did you become acquainted with tier? vecOMmentled to me as a poor widow= in great distress, by a Mrs. Kihnot,- and she put hito my hands some papers 'el mrrespoodence, which showtst that she %troths pet-son she 'represented herself to be. Anionglit them was the following lettei from Mr, 'ferries, of the TressntY; lb Lady Erskine Treas ur Cha t ni e Lberito, rtie 81st of 0ner 1824. 1 . ul Madant;-4 am commanded, by h his Majesty's Treasury, to acq uaint your Ladyship, th at the King, havingtO' grant pensions, in• trust, for your Ladyship's children, and also to direct the issue of two sums of 8001, and 2004, to the Earls Rosalyn and Duncanactib seem may uPP,lied*tthe !Ise of,yom ae lf and flintily, itt such manner A expedient to them, my Lards cannot hold out any sawn ragenient to youri.ati'sobuir ad 3,, slip to obedientmake any fuitli:rtv t a t l p at pe;l to hit Majesty's bou nty , 1 ant y iiERRIES. To the %Kid H un . Lady E trine Mr. C6lntsniaill also produced the following kter from Lord Rosalyn to Lady ErAble few lines, signifying his intention to bequeath to her: the sum of bOl. annually for her life, and containing an injunction to his surviving relations to pay her that sum. In the early part of May last, General Brown died, and she then found herself cast upon the world with her poor child, destitute. Mrs. Knox, the General's sister, administered to his effects, and came into pot session of 50,000/., and when she (defendant) made her claim for the annuity promised, and, indeed, bequeathed to her by Gt-' neral Brown, she refused •to pay it, or do any thing at all fur her. The consequence was, that she became in a short time want even of the common necessaries of life, and it was only s• few hours before she was taken up that she had pawned her bed- furniture to procure food for herself and child. The defendant's feelings so overcame her at this part of her statement, that she fell into hysterics, and the office rang with her cries._ Chen, she recovered, she handed to Mr. Halls the book of which ahe had spoicen, and in which the bequest mentioned was written in a very peculiar hand, which Captain Knox, without hesitation, admitted to be the General's. . . Captain Knox said the defendant had been over and over . again, whin she made her claim, referred to Mrs: Knox's SO' licitor, who was the proper person to investigate her supplied • Mrs. Crowley said she had been several times to the Solicitor, but he refused to do any thing unless she brought a letter from Airs. Knox, which that lady uniformly refused to give. St!, (defendant) had shown the writing in the book to Mr. nobler,. at the Mansion House, and to Mr. Roche, Vestry Clerk of Co vent-garden, who both pronounced it to be unquestionably s legal bequest. She had a son by her husband, who was non'' a Captain in the East India Service, and she had a letter in her hand from him, in which he stated that he was coining home shortly, and that he would settle an allowance upon her suffi ciently to support her respectably. (This letter was handed to Mr. Halls.) All she wanted, therefore, if Mrs. Knox would not pay , her the annuity, was a trifling advance of m one y to keg her from' starving until her son came home, but this was refused to her. Mr. Hatt s said her case certainly seemed replete with hattil. ship, but still be wm bound to say, as a Magistrate, that she wi wrong in going to Mrs. Knox's house, and refusing to go whin she was desired to do so. He could not, however, help,thinkinV that it would be as well for Mrs. Knox and her son, the Captnia. : to reconsider the matter, and to ask themselves whether the We.' fortunate defendant was not a fit object for the exercise of the#f benevolence, even supposing she had no legal claim. . At the suggestion of Mr. Hatt.s the case was adjourned u ntil' yesterday, Mrs. Crowley promising not to go near Mrs. Knux" house in the mean time. Yesterday, morning Captain Knox came, accompanied by his Solicitor, and being questioned by Mr. HALLS as to whether it Was the intention of himself or his mother to assist. the defendant, the Captain replied in the negative. He and his mother, said tile Captain, were better judges of th case than any other person* could be, and they had determined not to maim the defendant anY allowance. This declaration seemed to excite considerable astonishment in all present, and in none more than Mr. HALLS, who, with 00 warmth, said, he could not help viewing such conduct as helot not only extraordinary, but he had no hesitation in saying, ex tremely disgraceful to the parties upon whom the pour woolas , claim was made. She had, it appeared,, spent the best of Ix days in the service of General Brown, and it could not be denied ! that she had been a faithful and a moot valuable servant. She was now in distress, and although it was too evident to admit of l i doubt even, that the General had intended to provide handsomely for her, yet his relations, who had come into the possessiou 01 $ large property by his death, refused to give her even tempera* . aid. Even. if they were not legally liable,' they were inoraill hound to, give her assistance, and their refusal to du so way, he repeated, in hie opinion, disgraceful. .At this period Capt. Knox and his Solicitor suddenly left to" Office. Mr. HALLS told the poor woman he would do all he could to serve her, and he had no doubt that the Public, if her ca' were known, would sympathise with, and contribute to relieve 'her distress. The worthy Magistrate then gave her some money, an exanTi', which was followed by several gentlemen in the office; and, finslifi a letter was given to her, addressed to the officers of St. Patterss? in which parish she was residing, recommending them to pro 4 , - cute her claim against Mrs. K nox . The poor creature departed shedding tears of gratitude. HATTON-GARDEN.-77zomas Newton Sang yesterday brought up for re-e xa min at i o n under i char a f r er ms' ' extensive embezzlement, preferred against him by his ea'" i i ) an k oe y , e r r lt , oh lllr. Wilson Neil, varnish-manufacturer in Maiden is vh f o o m rm h er e .e w a aB am m inati et on in i g r w i t . prOved in evidencik that he had received the sum 9f 6!. 13d. from 4 , galtOcl malt in Hill-street, Hanover-square, for which his recei was produced. Since that period Mr. Niel has n*d discoveries of different sums of money unaccounted for, tck the amount of near '2001; but haS not been able to 0 1 . more than one-half of his customers, his connection particularly extensive. The two following cases were then taken against hii and he was committed on the' three different charges. Mr. Green, of the firm of Green and Houser, jape!' tiers, Meard4treet, SOhO, proved paying the prisOo 1/. ss. on the 23d February last„and receiving his rectilit• This sum hid never 'b een accounted for to 111 r. Neil, (4 , any entry made. On the 10th June the prisoner received the sum of fs l ! from M r . Johnson, plumber and glazier,, Orange-street: Leicester-square, and accounted to his employe r for ih only. Several other persons were present to prefer flatbe d charges; but these 'were considered quite sufficient, all thejiarties were bound over to prosecute. The' priSoner, who is said to be most respectably netted, was professionally attended by M r. B utl e r , t o thl abSence froth London of Mr. Harmer. A LAUNCH AT MIDNIGHT.--_O [l .&gturd P r . of Parations bad been Made for launching, hem the building-Ft ] Slessrs. 3lettershead and Hayes, situate on the west side el 11 ' Salt-house dock, a fine new ship,' named the Gipsy, belono e 4 i , to. Sir John Tobin. Owing t o some defect in the ways, the water.ck fast when about one thi r d o f h er length had got Auto Two of the large and powerful steamers belonging w as p. Dublin Steam Packet Company were immediately sent to emu your to draw her off; hut although they were assisted by 41ti""for steamer," they failed in the attempt, after persevering in' .- 0 1 some time, and breaking tiro hawsers. The attempt wo n.l l O . given up as hopeless, at least for Saturday's tide, and At none were recommenced to ensure its success during t' i t ' dip l e tide. As the water rose in the river, the stern of the floated ; this caused the bows to pram on the ways, sn,d i past eleven o'cl oc k, w hi c h was nearly two hours berare, water, the ship went '.spont aneous l y off in fine style , t o tor small surprise of the shipwrights, who not expecting off so soon, and, least of all, without their aid, were co n ' g. llo regaling themselves. So sudden and unexpected, indeed, t he launch, that not more thou four or five men were on Ti t is' vessel at the mom en t when ,she Plunged into the river. mediately put off to her asaistalux, and she was !win brought into dock.—Liverpool Mercury. On Sunday last, the lady ll o l f ß lii il kantlford Gralwo, I"lr."''''' 4' a daughter. ..., On. the 11 t h MARRIED. ' 11, 0 106 inat., at chetteniun, by the R e v. John Prebeinbuy of Southwell, Thomas. Ha Rayly, °l3 lf Mr ,;flir of N. Nil) Esq., of:Mount Boacon lionae, near -paw,' :ar t* le Becher, on l y surv i v i ng daughter and heiress of the "`" jamin Hayes, Esq., of Marble-hill, County of Corli ! „. ' On the 12th inst., at Pelbrigg, by the Bev. S. F. - 1111 ,1, gall, A.M., George Thomas Wendhatn, Esq., of Croot 6 t Al io Norfolk, and Math, Lincolnshire second daughter of Rear- Athuiral Windbatn, 'of Ferbrigg Norfolk, and niece to the late Right non; Wm. Windbsol..' On the 11th lust, at All Hallows, Barking, Mr, Oliver o lio ford, qf ' l4l " ne '''q uitre, to Sophia, eldest daughter of Mr. 14° ,Trist, of Exeter, , to Afaria Anguata..""oll4 On the 19th April, off Rio de Jantir° , DIED. 1 • sirs' ridan, Midshipm an in his Majesty's ship Diamond' 4)4 Was caused by a fail from the rigging, and instantaneous. On the 13th inst., k' Vale, ..... 4r,..., in 01 — e - B , 2 : ye n: if s h o o f use hit , in age A . lontairar-Pinot , ' 51 ,1 'square., and of brieklrw oo d ;louse, Hendon, Afiddleses, , after_ afew 1 ays. bi t * On the 11th ' a ft er 1 ' ills tbki Rat 't JOON° son of Henry John Adeine, Esc'', of Babrahan4 Cimbridges „e h Thomas Berkeler On the 9th inst., of s pti o n, after an Illness of tbur, 17, 0 1 41'. W il liam .11, j. Mi ll s , surgeon , of Ilarazithire, folmi otr " of,the late Pair. Mills, 01 l'ark-lane• __ ~_,it t # .....—_ - Printed and Pub lith e( ' by M. YOUNG,:or tlu SO orbPl" No. II; Strom!.